sperm whale

Sperm whales have slate grey or brown wrinkly skin. When it comes to habitat sperm whales can be found swimming through all of the earths major oceans. A mythical albino sperm whale was immortalized in Herman Melville's Moby Dick , though Ahab's nemesis was apparently based on a real animal whalers called Mocha Dick. You can click on each icon on the map to find out the date, time, latitude, longitude, route, vessel, species, and group size seen for that species at that point. What made you want to look up sperm whale?
Ask yourself, what do you really believe in — if you and I lived in a truly just world? That is a waxy substance used for making candles. You are commenting using your Twitter account. Because of these marine mammal park captures there are areas where orcas were hunt close to extinction and pods wiped out completely or almost completely. Unlike other whale species sperm whales do not appear to stick to a predetermined migration pattern. The head of the whale contains an organ known as the spermaceti organ, hence its name, which was once believed to produce sperm, but has since been proven to serve another unknown use. No other animal breeders would continue with such a small gene pool — its irresponsible beyond words and smacks of just one thing GREED!!

Sperm Whale | Oceana

Sperm whales are predominantly black to brownish grey, with white areas around the mouth and often on the belly. I am here because scientists have started to figure out just what it is a sperm whale does in the deep: The fish are well suited to life in the dim depths, with enormous, almost grotesquely large eyes and small organs, known as photophores, that produce a faint glow. They can eat dead ants its really weird. At the Smithsonian Visit. Here codas and roans from a group of eight, large males can be heard.